A mother and her two young children died in a fiery crash early Monday morning after striking an alligator that had crawled onto an interstate in SC, authorities said. The driver then ran off the left side of the road - into the median - and struck a tree.

Amber Stanley, 24, was driving along I-95 in Orangeburg County on Monday with her 4-year-old son, Jack, and 2-year-old daughter, Autumn, when their vehicle hit an alligator crossing the northbound lanes.

Investigators say an SUV was traveling north when it hit an alligator crossing the road.

"When I landed in Atlanta, I couldn't get a hold of her", Stanley said. "I'll go, 'That's Amber.' And I know it's not", he continued. The husband, Josh, said he was in Pennsylvania for work at the time of this crash.

According to Action News Jax in Jacksonville, FL, Josh Stanley, now the sole survivor of his family, said he was working out of town as his wife and two children traveled through SC. "I'll be walking round and that I'll only, for example, watch out something from this corner of my eye, I move, "that& 's Amber, ' also that I understand it's maybe not, however, it's only first thing my brain goes to. I'm still kind of processing it though", he said". Josh Stanley explained his spouse loved going to the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens and he'd like to organize a clerk there because of his wife and kids.

follow

editors' picks

May 10, 2018Twitter to soon launch an encrypted messaging feature
Implementing E2E encryption adds another layer of privacy when it comes to communicating with people on Twitter. Twitter may gain the upper hand on WhatsApp if Facebook starts to go through the conversations.

May 10, 2018Dems use attacks by GOP rivals against Braun
Trey Hollingsworth in the 9th District - have been absent from the districts and are clueless about what their constituents need. It could also be seen as a win for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who clashed with Blankenship during the campaign.

May 07, 2018That first Big Mac was so good he's had 30000 of them
Gorske has been obsessed with the burgers since he tried his first one back in that same McDonald's in 1972, 46 years ago. And in 2016, USA Today tagged along with Gorske to watch him eat his 29,000th Big Mac.

May 05, 2018Civilian killed by RAF drone in Syria
A monitoring group, Airwars, documented that between 1,066 and 1,579 civilians died in the nine-month fight for Mosul. It said that RAF has carried out more than 1,600 aerial attacks in Iraq and Syria, second only to the US.

May 05, 2018New York Mets part ways with pitcher Harvey
He was the seventh overall draft pick in 2010, became an All-Star in 2013 and was the NL Comeback Player of the Year in 2015. Because of Harvey's $5,625,000 salary, a trade might be hard to make unless the Mets agree to send cash as part of a deal.

May 03, 2018US Stocks Decline as Fed Keeps Rates Steady
The U.S. dollar bought 109.68 Japanese yen, lower than 109.80 Japanese yen of the previous session. The blue chip CSI 300 was up 0.8 per cent, but not far from an eight-month low hit in April.

April 30, 2018Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. says she is an informant
Veselnitskaya disclosed that she was a "source of information" for Russian prosecutor general Yuri Chaika , a close ally of Putin. Putin nominated Chaika to serve as prosecutor general in 2006, and he has served in that position ever since.